One of the big reasons we wanted to open this cafe was to share games with people and find out new games along the way.
Recently we went to the UK Games Expo and got to see a lot of exciting new games, some great cosplay and we even witnessed a wedding proposal (she said yes).
I should say from the get-go, I am a collector. Not a "got to catch 'em all" type, a "looks good on the shelf" type. So when I saw Krosmaster: Arena at the expo I was intrigued.
The game has an adorable chibi art style (similar to Super Dungeon Explore) and is an arena battle game (DOTA2 being a popular PC game example). The game setting is based on a French cartoon but I know nothing about the show and this doesn't seem relevant to the game.
What do you get?
The base game costs around £60 and contains 8 pre-painted figures, a hoard of tokens and terrain, a dual sided gameboard and rulebook.
The figure themselves look great. Those into wargames may consider the paint-job simple but the colours are bright and bold - I think they look great.
The rulebook has an interesting feature that it contains a collection of mini-games that you play on the pages of the rules themselves, using the pages as a mini-gameboard. Each mini-game teaches you more about the game until you get up to speed with all the rules. While not a necessity. I felt it was a nice touch for those new to this type of game.
The gameboard and tokens seem to be pretty sturdy but not quite the quality one gets with a game from Fantasy Flight say. Some of the terrain pieces are little crates that you need to assemble. Mine are held together with stubbornness, on reflection I would advise using glue.
All the toys!
Being a collectible game there are already numerous expansions to this game. There are two gameboard expansions, three seasons of figure releases and expensive terrain upgrades for the really dedicated.
All in all there appears to be well over 100 different figures to collect, although a lot of them look similar to others (there are 3-4 knights of different colours). You can get some pre-determined figures but for the most part these come in randomised boxes so you don't know what you might get when you buy one. The excitement of opening the unknown appeals to some, but I would prefer I knew what I was getting so shall be sticking to the pre-determined figures for future puchases.
Next time: Game play review...
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